Sentence examples for the punitive effects from inspiring English sources

"We hope that in the hearings, the city can find a way to insure public health while reducing the punitive effects of the current letter grading system".

Players, he laments, are still vulnerable to the punitive effects of the crisis – late payments in particular – and are rarely around long enough to really want to make a difference.

Both the current growth of the church in Romania and the Orthodox hierarchy's close relationship with the political classes are partly explained by the punitive effects of Ceausescu's extreme regime when dozens of historic churches were destroyed and many Orthodox leaders collaborated with the communists in order to survive.

Social conservatives typically oppose it on the grounds that lessening the punitive effects of recreational sex encourages it further.

The European Parliament does not, in fact, have the power to do this, except in very specific situations; situations so serious that they could be seen as potentially having the punitive effects of Article 7 of the EU Treaty apply to them.

The punitive effect of being on the blacklist would be minimal, he admitted.

Increasing buzz duration by a factor of ten, i.e. from 0.2 s to 2 s, did not increase this associative effect (Fig. 1D; for the underlying preference scores, see supplementary material Fig. S1), suggesting that the punitive effect of the buzz might be largely exerted by its onset (Zhang et al., 2013).

We predict that, as a consequence of a move towards a risk management model, the new visa cancellation powers could have adverse punitive effects on long-term permanent residents in Australia, rather than ensuring national security.

Additionally, for voice to be effective, there can be no adverse effects from speaking up, no punitive effects or retribution for doing so.

The one-child policy, which actually allows a third of couples to have another baby, was supposed to be a transitional measure, but more than 30 years later it endures, despite warnings of its punitive effects on China's development and families like Li's.

Nicholls warned that the tax is having a punitive effect on the kind of brownfield residential projects that the government is keen to encourage.